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(DIR) Post #AtjbZKVOM3ePsKLWtM by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-05-04T01:11:14Z
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Daylight savings is neurotypicalcentrism and a hate crime.Even the people who act like it's not a big deal don't like it. It's just ... mean. It's something a wicked prison warden would do "oh yes let's move the clocks around so as soon as you get settled waking up at one time now you need to change everything around and feel "off" for two months until we change it again.
(DIR) Post #AtjbjYODaWclpfrkjQ by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-05-04T01:13:04Z
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Spring forward! Fall back! Spring forward! Fall back! Spring forward! Fall back! A relentless nightmare that never ends and no one can explain or justify.
(DIR) Post #AtjbyfXVHtniLoPtnE by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-05-04T01:15:48Z
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I'm being a little dramatic, yes, I can recognize that. But, it's normal and natural to wake up at the same time everyday. It's healthy and normal, and often, at least for me I wake up within the same five min. window naturally. Until they change the clocks. THEN I need an alarm clock again. Or I'm up and hour early, sometimes on the train an hour early even. It always makes the two weeks after the change feel like I have the flu. WHY. No one can explain.
(DIR) Post #Atjc5OzFEClV2bbRQW by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-05-04T01:16:57Z
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@alienghic That's why I know the people who say "it's for the farmers" are LIEING. No one who has a bunch of animals would want this.
(DIR) Post #AtjcNWPINXs1GbQbRY by not2b@sfba.social
2025-05-04T01:20:15Z
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@futurebird I hate the transitions. But I like the later light in summer, and having daylight time all year would make it too dark in the mornings in winter. I suppose that if schedules were more flexible it wouldn't matter.
(DIR) Post #AtjdCx3F4k4sfgdWJU by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-05-04T01:29:36Z
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@not2b I would be open to having sunrise be defined to be at the same time every day and each day you move the clock by a few seconds or minutes as a compromise.
(DIR) Post #Atje2aFJ6uht03tr1s by dx@social.ridetrans.it
2025-05-04T01:38:52Z
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@futurebird @not2b I made a little script that did this on my phone and displayed a little graphic of the sun’s progress since sunrise and the “time” in “standard sunrise time”
(DIR) Post #AtjeMfZZ11fRJPx6x6 by PossumPartyGlider@mastodon.au
2025-05-04T01:42:31Z
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@futurebird Agreed.
(DIR) Post #AtjebPVx0BrNqtI8DQ by nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social
2025-05-04T01:45:12Z
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@futurebird You are not being overly dramatic. There are literal numbers from actual studies that confirm what you say. And if I recall, it's much more than two weeks (I think more like a month or two?) Things like accident rates and etc actually go up twice a year every year when the clocks are changed.Really DST was about things like saving electricity. People use more power at night and such when they go home and turn on the lights. So DST is meant to move our active time into the most optimal time for using less overall power.But of course there are much better, less brute force ways of doing this! Better scheduling, keeping DST on, etc. DST is the 30 lbs mallet to the problem that requires a screwdriver.
(DIR) Post #AtjefFT0Iguzqfk8fI by AstroHyde@mastodon.social
2025-05-04T01:45:53Z
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@futurebird I especially like that places of all latitudes that do NOT do daylight savings and are 100% fine and enjoying the improvement compared to their idiot neighbors who bounce around lol 😆
(DIR) Post #AtjfAQz5Wq8aXwcYXg by JamesWidman@mastodon.social
2025-05-04T01:51:30Z
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@futurebird also: might not affect many people, but if you ever need to keep a written record of events during the night when the clocks are turned back an hour, and you need write about something that happened 90 minutes after midnight, how do you distinguish between that and 150 minutes after midnight?(ok, so maybe i just answered my own question, but how many people are going to think of that instead of writing the ambiguous "1:30 a.m. [local time]"?)
(DIR) Post #Atjfd78SPC5XNsg8zg by brass75@twit.social
2025-05-04T01:56:41Z
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@futurebird You’re not being dramatic enough! DST is an abomination! Standard time forever!
(DIR) Post #AtjgBDLfoMlIV37Y5g by azonenberg@ioc.exchange
2025-05-04T02:02:48Z
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@futurebird Ooooh, that explains your perspective. You must be one of those weird people with a circadian rhythm that's exactly 24:00 hours long so it aligns to the natural day-night cycle over a long period of time.As someone with a sleep cycle with a natural period that varies between 24:30 and 28:00, the disruption you describe is "going to work" for me.My natural state in the absence of external requirements (e.g. extended WFH periods with no need to wake up at a set time to go into the office ) is to wake up a little bit later each day than the day before. This leads to a slow drift so that if I started out in sync, after two weeks or so I might be waking up around the time my wife is going to bed and getting most of my work done overnight - something i don't mind at all because it ensures a distraction free environment. After another week or two we're back in sync and I'm getting up at 5am without an alarm... Then 5:30, then 6...The real hell is when I have to get up at the same time every day, say because I'm on a project that requires me to be in the office a lot. I get tired later and later each day but am forcibly waking up more and more exhausted. It would be like you waking up at 6am one day then setting an alarm for 5:45 the next, 5:30 the next, etc. Eventually I crash hard (usually on a weekend) and nap all day then wake up the next alarm somewhat well rested and the cycle repeats.So I don't mind DST shifts at all, it's business as usual. And if I'm in one of those "going in to work a lot" periods it's actually quite nice being done with work for the day and still being able to enjoy outdoor stuff. Perpetual DST would be fine by me too.
(DIR) Post #AtjgbltxxyDXC3pB44 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-05-04T02:07:42Z
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@azonenberg I don't think I'm naturally 24 hours. Naturally I wake up at sunrise. But, that isn't good for anything. But, when I keep doing the same thing at the same times over and over I get used to it and don't need a clock anymore which I love. But then they keep moving the times around so that little advantage never sticks.
(DIR) Post #AtjqDbOOO3FdBvAaga by ethergear@infosec.exchange
2025-05-04T03:55:18Z
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@futurebird Arizona doesn't do DST any more and it's wonderful
(DIR) Post #AtjqgJqyfvlHC2EYMq by xerxespersrex@mastodon.social
2025-05-04T04:00:32Z
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@futurebird Time of day being different in different places is complete nonsense to begin with. It's totally arbitrary. There's no reason you have to wake up at the number 7 and go to sleep at the number 9 (or 21). We can just have one planetary clock (UTC) and regionally adjust ourselves for the normal sleep time in different places. In one place people sleep at 3am, another they sleep at 6pm. And you know when to sleep... because it's dark, duh. It would make everything SO much easier.
(DIR) Post #Atjw112EKwHogGBXw8 by rupert@mastodon.nz
2025-05-04T05:00:13Z
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@futurebird I grew up in a long thin country in a single time zone whose north end has ridiculously short winter days to the extent there were plans for permanent double DST so at least kids are travelling between home and school at least once in the light*, and now I live in a long thin country whose north end is subtropical and daylight savings doesn't matter because cuzzie shows up when he's good and ready anyway.
(DIR) Post #Atk6QoF3WU1E4f7eEa by david@fouroclockfarms.club
2025-05-04T06:56:58Z
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@futurebird Problem with that is sunrise/sunset times attract/repel depending on the season, unless close to the equator.Just delete DST and I’ll be fine. The spring shift is brutal for me. I’ve always been a night owl and morning-hater.@not2b
(DIR) Post #Atk6tKpLxrZHFDhbGq by RonniesaurusHex@disabled.social
2025-05-04T07:02:06Z
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@futurebirdNot dramatic. I personally take delight that where I live rejected the tomfoolery of daylight savings.
(DIR) Post #AtkDXLMtyICYENr4xU by rufovillosum@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-05-04T08:16:37Z
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@futurebird @not2b I’ve got 16 clocks or devices that would need to be changed daily!
(DIR) Post #AtkOd3H9FgLvLn5Xd2 by IngaLovinde@embracing.space
2025-05-04T10:20:56Z
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@futurebird EU was going to cancel clock changing for a really long time now, for this exact reason. But of course the EU countries in all these years could not agree on which fixed time offset should each of them pick, so the plan is still not implemented, even though all of them can agree that having to change the clock is worse.